Microsoft Purview Information Protection support in Acrobat

What is Microsoft Purview Information Protection?

Microsoft Purview Information Protection (MPIP) is a Microsoft rights management solution that enables a rights-based access to assets including PDF documents. Adobe Acrobat Pro/Standard and Reader desktop apps support consistent viewing of PDFs protected by Microsoft Purview Information Protection. In addition, for organizations standardizing on MPIP, we have launched the native experience to apply and edit Information Protection sensitivity labels and policies to their PDFs within the desktop version of Acrobat Pro/Standard.

For details, see Protect your sensitive data with Microsoft Purview.

Consistent Viewing of Microsoft Purview Information Protection protected PDFs in Acrobat and Adobe Reader

Users of Azure Information Protection and other Microsoft Purview Information Protection solutions can use Acrobat or Adobe Reader to read labeled and protected content. For more on Acrobat and Adobe Reader support for viewing such files, see MPIP for Acrobat and Adobe Reader.

Steps to enable document message bar

To enabled the document message bar in MPIP protected PDFs in Acrobat and Adobe Reader, download the latest version of Acrobat or Adobe Reader, and then follow these steps (depending on your OS).

Apply and edit Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels on PDFs in Acrobat

Additional MPIP setup requirements for Microsoft Sovereign Cloud tenants

When working with the MPIP protected PDFs, you must configure the registry to point Adobe Acrobat or Reader to your Microsoft Sovereign Cloud.

Setup requirements for Browser Authentication in MPIP workflow

You can use following registry to enable or disable browser authentication for MPIP operations in Adobe Acrobat or Reader.

Setup requirements for double key encryption labels in MPIP workflow

You can use following registry to enable or disable double key encryption for MPIP operations in Adobe Acrobat or Reader.

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